Re: Firefox collides with Windows Explorer

On 2/3/21 8:17 AM, this is what Leo L te Braake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new here, and not aware of group do's and don'ts....
> 
> Since a few months I have problems downloading any file from any website. The browser simply completely disappears on the moment I start 
> navigating to the folder where I want the file to land.
> 
> No problem in Google Chrome
> 
> Yesterday I wanted to upload a file to our Joomla website using the Phoca Download Plugin to make it available. This process also involves 
> navigating an explorer window to the folder where my file resides, and again the complete browser vanished.
> 
> Again, no problem in Google Chrome.
> 
> Firefox is as always up to date. I have uninstalled it and then reinstalled, but the problem did not go away.
> 
> Please, help!
> 
> Leo
> 
> 
You could launch "Firefox -p" to start the profile manager and make a new profile.  Use the new profile as is to see if it fails.   If it 
does fail, then it is a bug, if it does not fail, you probably have an add-on issue.

FIrefox -p and pick your other profile to go back to normal.

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